Alpine plants
Subtitle: figures and descriptions of some of the most striking and beautiful of the Alpine flowers
By: edited by David Wooster ...
Contributors: Lydon, A. F.; Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893 (printer); Burn & Co.
Publisher: George Bell & Son; B. Fawcett, Engraver and Printer)
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Mountain plants
Notes: "Second Series."--T.p.

The first part of this series was published with the same title in 1872 by Bell and Daldy.  See McLean O 669.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Several plates are with imprint: "A. F. L." or "A. F. Lydon".

Includes "Systematic Index, in which the plants figured and described in Vol. II. are arranged according to the natural system.": p. [133]-135 and "General Index.": p. [137]-140.

MASS copy: Bound in green morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind in the same design as McLean O 669, but with the addition of two stars blocked in gold under the editor's name on the upper cover and without the publisher's device blocked in blind on the lower cover.  Upper cover with central oval paper onlay printed with colour wood-engraved illustration replicated from the text.  Spine with imprint: "Bell & Sons".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Burn  & Co".  With ownership inscription dated 1878: "Thos. Egerton Tatton".  With armorial bookplate: "Crescent".